LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Efforts are still underway to restore power to all of the Lake County residents who lost electricity during the midweek atmospheric river storm.

Several thousand Lake County residents were among the more than 500,000 customers whose power was knocked out by the storm, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Thursday.

The outages were the result of the atmospheric river storm that arrived on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain that flooded areas already saturated by earlier storms along with winds as high as 100 miles per hour in some parts of the state.

PG&E that during the 24-hour period that ended at 3 p.m. Thursday, it had restored power to more than 406,000 customers.

At that point, there were still approximately 2,300 outages affecting 95,500 customers, with many in the North Coast, Bay Area and Central Coast areas.

The outages in Lake County resulted in Cobb Elementary School being closed on Thursday, school officials reported.

The county of Lake reported Thursday afternoon that there were still 42 outages in Lake County, representing 1,300 total meters, with most associated with the Middletown, Konocti, Lucerne and Hartley (Lakeport-area) substations. There were no estimated times of restoration.

Lake County News was unable to get an update on those specific numbers from PG&E on Thursday night.

However, on Thursday evening, during the Clearlake City Council meeting, City Manager Alan Flora said there were about 2,000 Lake County customers still out of power, of which about 100 to 200 were in the city itself.

He said it was “pretty phenomenal” to see the number of outages across the Bay Area due to the storm.

Later on Thursday night, the PG&E outage map showed the number of outages was dwindling, with the impacted Lake County residents in the hundreds, not thousands.

PG&E said it had mobilized more than 3,000 of its own co-workers, contractors and mutual-aid personnel from Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, with help coming from Oregon, New Mexico, Utah and Washington.

“Our crews are out in full force restoring customers safely and as quickly as possible. We are conducting assessments of damage and prioritizing repairs with a focus on critical facilities and resolving outages that are impacting the largest number of customers,” said Janisse Quiñones, PG&E’s senior vice president, electric operations.

The company said hazards such as fallen trees, floods and debris flows have made gaining access difficult in some areas and could delay power restoration efforts.

Incoming storms also could impact the restoration effort and cause more outages, the company said.

“We have a short window of time to make as much progress as we can before the next weather system in this series of storms enters our service area over the weekend,” said Quiñones.

The county also reported that PG&E was asking for help from county residents.

Anyone aware of power lines down on their property or nearby properties, or trees affecting lines on a property, is asked to call 800-743-5002 to report them. Callers are urged to document an address, cross-street or mile post marker.

PG&E said its customers can view real-time outage information at PG&E’s online outage center and search by a specific address, city or county. This site has been updated to include support in 16 languages.

Additionally, customers can sign up for outage notifications by text, email, or phone. PG&E will let customers know the cause of an outage, when crews are on their way, the estimated restoration time and when power has been restored.

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